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`UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEo ALFRED S. PHILLIPS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED IN SKIRT-IRONING TABLE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 72,228, dated December 17, 1867.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED S. PHILLIPS, ot' South Boston, in the county of Sut'olk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Skirt-Ironing Table; and I hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specication and represented in the accompanying drawings, of Which- Figure l is atop View, Fig. 2 a side-elevation, Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, and Fig.4 an end View, of such table. Fig. 5 is a top view otl its removable legs. Fig. 6 is an under side View ofthe table and shows the dovetailed sockets for reception of the removable legs, also the hinged and removable pairs of legs as folded or laid flat against the table-top.

The table in question has one pair of movable and one pair of removable legs,the latter being removable from the table-top in order to enable the said top to be extended through a skirt.

In the drawings, A denotes the table-top, made in the usual form of a skirt-board, but havin-g so hinged to it, near one end of it, a pair of legs, B B, as to enable them to be turned from a position in which they are dat against the top into one in which they are at or about at a right angle with it. Aturn-button, C, applied to the top and arranged with respect to the bar D, which connects the legs, serves to hold the pair of legs in their lastmentioned position. ilatiron holder or grated dish, E, xed in it, such dish being formed and arranged in Inanner as represented. There is applied to the table-top near its other end a cross-har, F, containing two dovetailed sockets, a a, which open out of one side of the bar and are dovetailed in two directions-that is, in planes at right angles. These sockets are for reception and holding of corresponding dovetailed projections, b b,extendi g from a cross-bar,o, from which a pair of legs, G G, extend in manner as shown in the drawings. Another turn-button, H, arranged with respect to the cross-bar F in manner as represented, serves to hold the bar c in connection with the bar F.

I claim- The skirt-ironing table as composed of the top or board, the pair of legs hinged thereto, and the pair of separable legs and the dovetailed connections, as described, for connecting the separable legs to the board or top, in manner as specified. v

ALFRED S. PHILLIPS. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. l?. HALE, J r.

The table-top also has a 

